A Certain Magical Index #11 — …Desuno

December 13th, 2008

 

I swear to Tlacolotl that I am going to throttle you, Kuroko.

Impressions:

Aside from Kuroko’s increasingly irritating speech pattern, sort of a mixed bag of an episode. On one hand, after the initial Accelerator/Misaka slaughter, it was pretty much nothing but talking heads along with some awkwardly thrown-in loli dining and some vaguely uncomfortable Kuroko writhing on a bed while pointing her can at Touma. I’m sure those aren’t negatives to some people though. On the other hand, the plot for this arc is significantly more interesting than the others and leaves the door wide open for plenty more slaughter. Misaka, or rather, the Sisters project clones are designed to create the first ever level 6 esper by having our merry serial killer take out 10,000 of them. I’m pretty sure I didn’t follow the logic as to why killing other espers makes one more powerful, but hey, I also watch shows where people become stronger by prodding someone else’s brains, so I can’t really complain there. Of course, in true Index fashion, it took them about 10 minutes to go over what I just summarized in a single bullet point.

Like I said though, even though the plot was interesting, the presentation was rather dull for most of the episode and the Komoe/Index/Himegami scene was completely shoehorned in just to make sure that you remember which character is in the title of the show. JC Staff didn’t go too overboard with the Kuroko sexual stuff either, but there was definitely the same kind of undercurrent there as fueled the fanbase for Nogizaki Haruka and enough pans up Kuroko’s legs to make sure that even the most straightlaced viewer has to wonder what exactly she was doing alone in the room before Touma showed up. I still really dislike the music, especially the decision to make extensive use of a mouth harp, but that’s certainly nothing new in my own little world. Thankfully, the art and animation was back to its relatively high quality after last week’s… whatever the hell you want to call that.

Preview:

 The search for the railgun.

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4 Shouts From the Peanut Gallery

  • Yue says:
    December 14, 2008 at 3:39 am

    Cloning Vats. Imagine 10,000 Indexes running around. Now that’s annoying.

  • anon says:
    December 14, 2008 at 7:49 am

    Just think like an RPG game.
    High level characters are supposed to be rare, and they get less xp for fighting low level opponents. High level opponents are hard to find, and killing them leaves you short a high level character.

    Solution: Clone a high level character, and kill it over and over for Great XP.

  • Anonymous says:
    December 14, 2008 at 11:25 pm

    but then the high level character clone is inferior so you really wouldn’t get as much xp for killing them, hence the massacre of the sisters. I mean they’re all level 3 espers at best.

  • WeabooGunFanatic says:
    March 22, 2009 at 11:17 pm

    the plan was actually 20000, only nine thousand nine hundred or so were left hence the mention of 10000. how long has the guy been doing this? [spoiler]if they did massive battles like the one shown in pseudo-flashback(which would’ve made for a fantastic episode imo) where he’s facing more than one target at a time, then perhaps that number would’ve been more believable. and episodes more entertaining than random fillers and talking heads >:|[/spoiler] i mean srsly, 10031 is a very, very big number when its dead people.